Justin Shafer pitched seven shutout innings as Lansing won with a rare 1-0 score. New Hampshire and Dunedin stayed hot with Dalton Pompey, Anthony Alford, Rowdy Tellez, Christian Lopes and Mitch Nay recording multi-hit games. The GCL Jays split a pair of extra inning games. The Jays fifth round pick, Jose Espada pitched well again.
Buffalo took a lead to the ninth but Gregory Infante blew it. Bluefield lost, Nick Wells had a rough start. Vancouver also lost but the Dominicans did what the parent club did not.
Buffalo 5 Rochester 6
Buffalo took a 5-4 lead to the ninth but Gregory Infante was terrible - double, walk, single, out, walk, single led to two runs and the loss. Todd Redmond made the start and went five innings with two runs scored off him. Miguel Castro had an interesting sixth inning, his first 11 pitches were balls. His next 14 pitches were strikes, one of which was an RBI double but he escaped that inning with one run allowed. Castro gave up an infield single leading off the seventh and was pulled. That runner later scored.
The Bisons scored all their runs in the sixth with four doubles and two walks. The doubles came from Melky Mesa, Matt Hague, Luke Scott and Sean Ochinko. The Bisons had ten hits.
Trenton 3 New Hampshire 7
A 7 run, bat around, third inning was all the Fisher Cats needed. Ian Parmley got it going with a double, Shane Opitz and Dalton Pompey singled, and then Dwight Smith doubled. Trenton also contributed three errors in the inning. Kevin Nolan and Matt Newman also chipped in with RBI singles. Pompey and Nolan each had two hits
Casey Lawrence pitched seven innings. As usual Lawrence gave up his share of hits, seven in this game, but he was hurt by a couple of errors. Only one of the three runs he allowed was earned. Colt Hynes pitched the last two innings with just one walk, no hits.
Dunedin 6 Daytona 1
Dunedin went down 1-0 in the first but bounced back for the win. Alonzo Gonzalez made the spot start and went four innings. Alberto Tirado relieved and went three innings of one hit ball. Tirado has got back on track this season. He was effectively promoted two levels to start this season and has been striking out a hitter per inning, while giving up less than a hit per inning. His walks are reasonable for a 20 year old in high A. It will be interesting to see if the Jays use him as a starter next year. Arik Sikula pitched well over the last two innings. As Sikula works his way back from injury he could get back to AA before too long.
Four hitters provided the offense for the Jays today. Anthony Alford was 2-3 with 2 walks and 3 runs scored. Christian Lopes had three hits, with a home run, scored two and drove in two. Rowdy Tellez was 2-4 with 2 RBI. Mitch Nay had 3 hits. Nay had a poor first half but has been hitting much better over the last two weeks, including a 3-4 day on Wednesday.
Lansing 1 Great Lakes 0
Reid-Foley took the loss in this game, that would be David Reid-Foley, Sean's brother. The only run came in the seventh, David Harris led off with a single, stole second, was bunted to third and scored on a single by Alex Maldonado. Maldonado was the only Lugnut with a couple of hits.
Justin Shafer was the star of the game, he pitched a three hitter over seven innings. Shafer had a tough time in Dunedin but has dominated the Midwest League. Colton Turner and Carlos Ramirez split the final two innings.
Vancouver 4 Eugene 8
The C's led 1-0 until the 6th but it all came crashing down as the Emeralds rolled a hard eight. Starter Clinton Hollon went 5-plus innings and gave up three runs on four hits and two runs but struck out 9. Michael Kraft gave up the other five runs in two-thirds of an inning but they were all unearned because of a couple of errors. Turner Lee and Bobby Wheatley finished up.Bluefield 4 Danville 7
The pitching let the Jays down. Nick Wells has been very up and down in his results this season. In this game he was down, four runs on six hits in 3.2 innings. Danville tacked on three more runs off two relievers.
Yeltsin Gudino drove in Edwin Fuentes with the first run. Matt Morgan hit a two run home run in the fifth and three Danville errors gave the fourth run to the Jays. The Jays were outhit 12-5.
GCL Jays 4 GCL Pirates 3 - 15 innings - game 1
This was a continuation of a game suspended due to weather two weeks ago. Today's run came in the 15th when Lance Jones led off with a double. He was sacrificed to third and scored on a fielder's choice from Jesus Severino. Ryan Cook and Mike Estevez closed it out.
GCL Jays 3 GCL Pirates 4 - 12 innings - game 2
The starting pitcher was Jose Espada, the Jays 5th round pick in this years draft from a high school in Puerto Rico. This was his third start and he has yet to give up a run. In 8 innings he has 4 hits allowed and 11 K's. Espada was followed by Juan Meza, a 17 year old from Venezuela. Meza has been less successful than Espada and on this day the Pirates scored three runs off him in three innings.
Ryan Hissey got the scoring started with an inside the park home run. Reggie Pruitt got his first hit in the fifth, stole a base and scored. Kalik May added another in that inning to give the Jays a 3-0 lead. After the Pirates tied the score in the sixth, the game remained tied until the 12th inning. Jonathan Torres walked the lead-off hitter who came around to score. Hissey had four hits, Pruitt and May had two each.
3 Stars
3rd star: Christian Lopes
2nd star: Anthony Alford
1st star: Justin Shafer
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